Re: [slim] Community Squeezebox: The Name Vote (Round 2)

A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98200 Question: W

Re: [slim] Which Web Browser do you use

Michaelwagner;382509 Wrote: > Nope. Care to elaborate? http://noscript.net An essential tool for surfing the web... Daniel -- dborn SlimServer Version: 6.5.5 - 16330 - Debian - EN - utf8 Buffalo Linkstation HD-HG300, 266MHz PowerPC, 128MB RAM running Freelink (Debian etch) SlimDevi

Re: [slim] Grandfather clock plugin, possible?

make a terrific high-tech grandfather clock! You could even have ol' Big Ben in your living room! ;) -- dborn SlimServer Version: 6.5.4 - 12387 - Debian - EN - utf8 Buffalo Linkstation HD-HG300, 266MHz PowerPC, 128MB RAM running Freelink (Debian etch)

Re: [slim] Grandfather clock plugin, possible?

...or a tropical rainforest or waves crashing on a beach, etc. The nice thing about a clock is that you _expect_ the sounds to be repetitive... a 5 second snippet of a roaring fire in a loop will probably get on everybody's nerves real quick! ;) -- dborn SlimServer Version: 6.5.4 -

Re: [slim] Grandfather clock plugin, possible?

a stream directly into the SB decoder. It's as low-level as it gets but I'll see if I get lucky figuring out how it works without getting the SB into an incompatible mode WRT the rest of slimserver and its main task of playing music... -- dborn SlimServer Version: 6.5.4 - 12387 - Debian -

[slim] Grandfather clock plugin, possible?

going through the whole "play track" code? I've looked at the Squeezebox communication protocol and did not find what I was looking for. Before I embark on this journey, can anyone "in the know" either confirm or deny this possibility? (and if possible, a short explanat

Re: [slim] Netscape saved me from ditching Squeezebox

Same here. IE 6 and IE 7 just work (slimserver running on Linux) -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=

Re: [slim] Quick way to remove "note" image from Now Playing dispay?

Just use the Music Information Screen plugin... -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=

Re: [slim] How do you use your Squeezebox/Transporter?

24/7 uptime. That says it all :) -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.p

Re: [slim] 6.5.2 with trepidation

a previously running version. -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35563 __

[slim] Displaying "Now Playing" information in web page

any plugins that would do this either. I know that there is an issue of catching a track change from a web page (how to get a dynamic update of tracks?) I was thinking of maybe using Michael's plugin and modifying it to do this but was just wondering if anybod

Re: [slim] at my wit's end with SB3

e" the SB3 and play some music. What does that do? Any difference? Good luck chasing the ghosts... ;) Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://fo

[slim] Re: Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox

s or slimserver crashes... ;-) Peace man. Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31652 ___

[slim] Re: High bandwidth useage when only displaying the clock

I host my slimserver (V6.3.1) on a Linkstation and since it has a network activity led on the front panel, I can see that displaying the clock even with just HH:MM format, still sends data every second to my SB2... As always, YMMV. Daniel -- dborn

[slim] Re: SqueezesoftHeadless.exe

me command-line tools that will do what you want. Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/sh

[slim] Re: older version of slimserver

V6.2.2 runs fine on linkstations. That's what I run. -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.p

[slim] Re: Slimserver scan procedure needs some serious work!

mputer the size (and power) of a toaster! ;-) I can only imagine it would be much faster on any half-decent desktop computer... Anyway, my $0.02... Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/mem

[slim] Re: Error: "Problem Can't Connect To Server For:"

Is there a way you could connect on wired ethernet long enough to rule out any wireless issues? This is where I would start... Good luck! Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?u

[slim] Re: Gigabit Linkstation flashing with Openlink or Freelink or original firmware?

ter for fear of inflicting cerebral death to it. -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24868 ___

[slim] Re: Gigabit Linkstation flashing with Openlink or Freelink or original firmware?

Yeah, I apologize. I misunderstood what Dan meant exactly when he mentioned not offering support for the LS in 6.5 Yes a Linkstation is cheap. If you can afford something better, consider it. Otherwise an LS (gigabit or otherwise) will work. Daniel -- dborn

[slim] Re: Gigabit Linkstation flashing with Openlink or Freelink or original firmware?

good idea anymore (Slim Devices is dropping the support for the LS on version 6.5 of SS). Many other NAS'es offer built-in support for slimserver these days at similar or slightly higher prices. My 2 cents, Daniel -- dborn -

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

17381 tracks, 1202 albums, 861 artists (all mp3) slimserver 6.2.2 Linux Hardware: Linkstation HDHG300, PPC 266MHz, 128MB Squeezebox: SB2 wired. Network: 100Mbps Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile:

[slim] Re: How to always start playlists at track 1?

I found a way to get what I want, I just remove the first line (CURTRACK...) in the file and slimserver doesn't add it back and the playlist always starts at track #1. Daniel -- dborn dborn's Pro

[slim] How to always start playlists at track 1?

an album). Is there a way to turn this behaviour off? There is a setting under Server Settings -> Behaviour named "Maintain Client Playlists" and it is set to "Do not remember playlist" but this doesn't seem to be it and doesn't affect the behaviour I am descri

[slim] Re: Running 6.2.2 on a Linkstation NAS

lly opened up my box and connected the hard disk to my PC so that I could "plant" a telnet on the box. For more info on the Linkstation, see http://linkstationwiki.org Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http

[slim] Re: Running 6.2.2 on a Linkstation NAS

I would venture that you have 64MB. I run SS 6.2.2 (recent nightly) on my HG300 (with 128MB) and use the default value of (Use RAM and 1) and it works fine. Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile:

[slim] Re: A Silly Poll

Age 44, Male, Canadian, 1 SB2, SlimServer running on LinkStation HG300. "The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys" is my motto. :) -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices

[slim] Re: Why is rescan playlists taking so long?

lists". Which seems to take way too long to complete considering that the playlist folder only has 1 playlist containing 10 songs... Thanks, Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com

[slim] Re: Why is rescan playlists taking so long?

web interface is still showing "SlimServer is still scanning your music library..." (even after doing refreshes). At 09:59 the web interface returns to normal and no additionnal debugs were seen in the log file. Strange. Thanks, Daniel

[slim] Re: Why is rescan playlists taking so long?

playing on my SB2... -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21860 _

[slim] Re: Why is rescan playlists taking so long?

Resanning everything is understandably slow in my case but doing a "rescan playlists" should take only seconds with a single playlist of 10 songs...? -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices

[slim] Re: Why is rescan playlists taking so long?

Also, I know there is a way for SlimServer to use MusicMagic directly from the Squeezebox but is there a way to specify that the MusicMagic server is actually located on a different box? (such as SS on Linkstation and MMM on a WinXP PC?) Thanks, Daniel -- dborn

[slim] Why is rescan playlists taking so long?

might be scanning more than just the playlist folder. is this normal and if so, why? Is there a better way to get that new/modified playlist into the slimserver (using the CLI interface from within my script)? I'm running the latest 6.2.2 nightly from about a week ago. Thanks, Daniel

[slim] Re: Using externally generated playlists

Great! Thanks Erland. This should be easy to do then. I'll give it a try. Thanks, Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimd

[slim] Using externally generated playlists

t "limited" in the sense that I can only have one MMM generated playlist at a time. How could I get slimserver to automatically see any new externally generated playlist when doing a "browse playlists"? Thanks, Daniel -- dborn -

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

Thanks, Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20642 ___ Discuss

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2) set to the main artist and "artist" (TPE1) set to the contributor(s) will do the trick. For those albums, do I need to set all tracks "album artist" = main artist even if certain tracks don't have other contributors? should the art

[slim] Re: What is the performance like on a Linkstation

erful machine in the forseeable future. My music collection has 17500+ tracks (in 1300+ albums) and I have slimserver look for artwork too. The HG model has a 33% faster CPU (266 vs 200 MHz) and double the RAM (128 vs 64MB) so it might be better to choose an HG. Daniel --

[slim] Re: Are you willing to pay for a Sirius Radio plug-in?

I already have too many things that I need to pay for. Radio isn't one of them (not even TV)... Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this th

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

t a suggestion. Thanks, Daniel P.S. Maybe I should open a bug report on this? (if there isn't one already) -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://

[slim] Re: Random Mix: Limiting what is played

2,3 (instead of songs 1,2,3) This sounds wrong to you?? so how would you make the "exclude" thing work then?? -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View th

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

which would help alot in organising interesting playlists. Also, I've got too many albums listed as "rock", "pop" or "jazz" which seems to be way too general to use and hope that the music I select by genre only goes well together... Ah the dilemma of having too much

[slim] Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

For the "Various Artists" albums, I finally gave up trying and just set Artist to "Various Artists" and put the individual artists in the "Performer" tag. As a software developper, I know how boring writing documentation is but a "quick

[slim] Re: Random Mix: Limiting what is played

" > tag. I would think that any EXclude should take precedence over any INclude... -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View

[slim] Re: How to choose a default SB to appear in the web interface

I wouldn't say I'm irritated but I would like to be able to specify which player is listed by default. I haven't tried it yet but maybe re-ordering the player info in the config file? (running slimserver on Linux). Dan

[slim] Re: kdf

Funny, I've been wondering the exact same thing... :) -- dborn ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: Songs added in reverse order from softsqueeze

Bug 1621 was submitted as I did not find it in bugzilla. Daniel -- dborn ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Songs added in reverse order from softsqueeze

From there, I went to All Albums (4th choice after the 3 artists) and pressed "Play". This added all songs for all 3 artists but in reverse order! (15, 14, 13, 12, ..., 1, 13, 12, 11, ..., 1, 14, 13, 12, ..., 1) Anybody else experienced this? Daniel -- dborn ___

[slim] Browse by genre with Various Artists has a problem

ng the albums instead of the artists, would solve this problem too...) :-) Thanks for any feedback, Daniel -- dborn ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: Multiple disc albums using DISC & DISCC doesn't work.

would assume #1 makes "more sense" musically..? Thanks, Daniel -- dborn ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Multiple disc albums using DISC & DISCC doesn't work.

derstand how it's supposed to work!?) because regardless of the Group Discs setting, all my multi-disc albums show up as single albums with tracks all listed in numerical order (not according to disc order). I've already filed bug 1473. Anybody else seen this? Daniel -- dborn ___

[slim] Re: Any chance of SlimDevices making a visual media player?

This is something I would love too. Playing my .jpg picture files on the TV screen would be awesome. Being able to play DVD quality mpeg2 files with ac3 sound also would be great but there may be a bandwith/storage space issue to consider... Daniel -- dborn